The Internet: It Can Support Larger Photos (OR, the Tiny Pics of Mattel)
I’ve mentioned before how I hate when sites run tiny pics for toy reviews, but it’s even worse when a toy company only offers small photos for product reveals. And after the recent wave of Mattel SDCC exclusive reveals — posted at Matty Collector — I see that I’m not alone in being tired of seeing such very small photos online. Poe Ghostal stated it very simply:
…I am not publishing any more news about Mattel’s SDCC reveals, no matter how awesome, until we get higher-res pics. Am I being petty? Yes.
While I am not yet at that point, I can certainly agree that these small product shots are completely useless to anyone wanting to get a good look at the toys. For example, the Mini Masters reveal pics are far too damned small to really be useful. You see the pic at right? That’s as large as Mattel offered it to us.
How does a company with $6 billion in sales last year not afford the bandwidth or neteligence to post a photo larger than that to the web? Ridiculous.
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I guess this is what they see as being a teaser – like how Takara show blacked-out Masterpiece toys.
Still, at least we get toy teasers – Games Workshop don’t really tease anything, and have recently issued cease & desist orders on the few sites that were actively generating buzz for GW’s products. Now *that* is laughable misuse of Teh Interwebs.
@Kev H – I completely don’t understand any company that won’t allow photos of its products to be shown online. Hell, I want people to talk about what I’m working on. Buzz is good!